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<br />Vol. 92 - No. 137
<br />
<br />Tuesday: July 14, 1981
<br />
<br />Glenwood Springs,Col
<br />
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<br />
<br />, 0,
<br />Prosecutor not surpn~
<br />
<br />Tucker: Cc
<br />
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<br />
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<br />
<br />~re mud
<br />
<br />AI Weller dumps another shovelful of mud Into a wheelbarrow parked in his
<br />front yard at 2117 Bennett Avenue, which was hard hit by rains during the
<br />weekend. Weller sold the same calastraphe occurred in his neighborhood
<br />about four years ago - right before Weller bought his home, Realtors
<br />assured him then thaI the same thing would not happen again, "Does
<br />ftl'loUlovuIu uinn.t tl"l huv.n hou!Ut cheoo?" Weller ioked. _
<br />
<br />By Alan Isbell
<br />Poslstalf wrll.er
<br />Fanner Ninth Judicial District At"
<br />torney Frank Tucker said Monday he
<br />"knew all along" he somehow would be
<br />exonerated far his convictions on two
<br />counts of embezzlement in 1978,
<br />That exoneration came Monday when
<br />the Colorado Supreme Court reversed
<br />, convictions on two counts of felony'em.
<br />bezzlement of Garfield County funds in
<br />1978, The court ruled the 13 indictments
<br />returned against Tucker by a Garfield
<br />County' grand jury were "un.
<br />constitutionally vague,"
<br />"I wake up this morning to find I was
<br />no longer a blg"time crook," declared
<br />Tucker, who works as a mortician in
<br />Rifle, He said be knew he would be
<br />exonerated somehow,
<br />"Tbe decision came as no surprise to
<br />me, although it will to a lot of others.
<br />Same were so convinced I was guUty," ,
<br />
<br />Not enough detail
<br />
<br />Paul Cooper. Denver attorney and
<br />special proseculodar the case, told the
<br />Glenwood .Posl Monday, "AU the
<br />Supreme Court is saying is thet;e was not
<br />enough detail in the original indictments,.
<br />It (the courl) is hardly saying Tucker did
<br />nothing wrong, although I'm sure he
<br />feels vlndicatedin his ownmlnd,"
<br />'Apparently. the decision came as no
<br />surprise to Cooper either, "I was afraid
<br />this would happen," he said, explaining
<br />that a recent' U.S, Supreme Court
<br />decision requiring greater specificity in
<br />Indictments against public officials had
<br />not been made when the Indictments
<br />were brought against Tucker.
<br />The judge trying the 1978 case, Fifth
<br />
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<br />
<br />District J
<br />dismissed I
<br />time; the t
<br />had not' b<
<br />speclficit'y
<br />requiremel
<br />that result<
<br />general's t
<br />the fact th
<br />, before the'
<br />had been
<br />argued the
<br />. that court
<br />U,S, Supr
<br />decision af
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<br />The for
<br />prosecute<
<br />trials of Tl
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<br />the indict
<br />. bezzlemlm
<br />
<br />The twl
<br />convicted
<br />incurred
<br />employed
<br />the pros
<br />romantic
<br />ployce-en
<br />between
<br />McGuem
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<br />paid far,
<br />not convi
<br />charge, b
<br />billing G~
<br />$155 fora
<br />vention \\
<br />spending
<br />
<br />Development on 'fast track'
<br />
<br />P&Z okays
<br />
<br />. .. .
<br />
<br />By Alan Isbell '
<br />Posl staff wrller
<br />Final plats involving 885 Battlement
<br />Mesa dwelling units whisked past the
<br />Garfield County Planning Commission
<br />Monday,
<br />The final plats were preceded by the
<br />approval of a preliminary pIat far 81
<br />single-family units in the WiIlow Creek
<br />Village portion of Bat'llement Mesa plan"
<br />ned unit' development.
<br />St'u Gibbons and Jim Adams. represen"
<br />ling Bamement' Mesa, Inc., appeared
<br />before the commission to update it on
<br />,construction progress of the new com-
<br />munity one-half mile south of Parachute
<br />and explain the plat' proposals, Bat-
<br />tlement Mesa Is an entity of the Colony
<br />Shale Oil Project, a partnership of Exxon
<br />and Tasco Corp.
<br />From the report gIVen to the .com"
<br />mission, Battlement Mesa apparently
<br />wiIl begin to look like a community
<br />before the year is out, The main slretch
<br />
<br />of parkw
<br />plete m.
<br />asphalte<
<br />water an
<br />are und
<br />betlin an
<br />contract<
<br />for the
<br />witbln 30
<br />should b
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<br />junior bl,
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<br />Prelln
<br />town Clm
<br />Gibbons
<br />, parale 0
<br />offices a
<br />
<br />A 180-<
<br />opened
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<br />occupie<
<br />peeted s
<br />dication
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